Shawn Lin wrote,
L> I personally haven't noticed any stability problems with Win98SE
L> either. I tried WinME and it was a big, bloated, and crashed a lot.
Just the opposite of my experience with those two ... anyhow, Matt Wall
wrote,
W> ... with the implementation of
W> burnproof (and whatever else they want to call it) you pretty much
W> need to turn your computer off to create a coaster any more.
I don't know about that. The only thing burnproofing adds is a way to cope
with buffer underruns. Since I'm not about to open my case and thus have
used only external burners, which can't run that fast because of the
connection speed, I've never faced a buffer underrun; at least, that's my
guess as to why underruns have never happened to me.
Yet I had a nasty coaster only a few days ago. Before burning I had killed
just about everything else that was running, except ZoneAlarm, Systray, and
Explorer. As the disc was being finalized, ZoneAlarm crashed, something I
had never seen it do before. Result: the first coaster I ever had for a
reason other than track mark locations. No buffer underrun was involved,
and burnproofing would not have helped.
One could classify it as equivalent to turning the computer off
involuntarily, I suppose. Anyhow, I restarted, killed all other
applications including ZoneAlarm, and got a perfect burn on the next try.
None of that ever happens with MD.
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